In plain words
Why? ‘Manasyekaṃ vacasyekaṃ karmaṇyekaṃ mahātmanam.’ The three must be one. “In your mind you made a vow: ‘I will see Mahāviṣṇu, win His boon, and come and sit on my father's lap.’ You came into the forest and did severe tapas with your body. But in your words you are asking for something else. Here body and mind have become one; the word has become something else. Your body, mind, these two have become one. The majority is there. The word has gone its own way. The vote goes to the majority, they say. What you think is one thing, what you do is one thing, and what you ask is something else again. So you cannot stay here. Go, make your mother and father happy, and later, if you still want it, come back,” He said.
The thought in the mind, the word spoken with the mouth, the work done with the hands must be one
Whatever students think in the mind, that same they must say in words. That is Satya. What you have said in words and thought in the mind, that very thing you must do with your hands. That is Dharma. If we follow this Satya and Dharma, Śānti and Prema come to us easily. Resolve to say what you have thought, without any fear, fearlessly. Do it properly. This is real Satya. You need never speak Asatya out of fear of your teachers or your parents. For a day or two you may have some trouble. Through Satya, little by little, your life will take on the very form of Satya.
That is why Hariścandra too said it. ‘Satya must not be given up, must not be let go, in any situation whatever,’ he said. ‘Let us plunge into this river called Satya. If we cross, we reach the bank; if we tire, we go under. But we must take no second path for it,’ he said. We have fallen into this world. If we make the effort to achieve its Satya, we reach the bank. If we shrink from this Satya and tire, we go under.